Commit 1312848e authored Mar 24, 2008 by Pavel Machek Committed by Linus Torvalds Mar 24, 2008

kernel-parameters.txt: document memmap option better



Provide example for memmap exclude option (it is slightly strange and
non-trivial) and provide nice small HOWTO for people with bad memory.

Signed-off-by: Jan-Simon Moeller <dl9pf@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

parent cc7feea3

Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt

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		@@ -1130,6 +1130,10 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
		memmap=nn[KMG]$ss[KMG]
		[KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as reserved.
		Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn.
		Example: Exclude memory from 0x18690000-0x1869ffff
		memmap=64K$0x18690000
		or
		memmap=0x10000$0x18690000

		meye.*= [HW] Set MotionEye Camera parameters
		See Documentation/video4linux/meye.txt.